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The IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (DHDS SIG) in partnership with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) SIG, the Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge Management (KM) Sections, invite you to submit proposals for the Open Webinar “Navigating the Risks of Global Inclusiveness: ML/AI Applications in Librarianship and DH/DS Practices”.
This week, IFLA representatives will be taking part in the 4th United Nations Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This event, reflecting the unique circumstances and needs of SIDS, will finalise the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for SIDS (ABAS), providing a framework for action by the UN and international community to support these countries.
Do you remember IFLACamp? NPSIG's famous event before WLIC? We are holding it online this year and we have exciting things planned. But most important of all, we want to receive your proposals! Click to learn more and read about how you can submit your proposal.
IFLA MENA RDC offered a workshop in Damascus Syria in collaboration with The Syrian Computer Society (SCS). The workshop titled "Measuring, Evaluating, and Demonstrating the Impact of Library Services" was held on May 20-21, 2024, at SCS headquarters.
IFLA MENA RDC and IFLA MLAS partnered with the Lebanese Library Association and ESCWA to organize the sixth conference of the Lebanese Library Association, titled "Libraries and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage." The conference took place at ESCWA in Beirut from May 14 to 16, 2024.
Experience provided by IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG)
The IFLA General Assembly 2024 will be live from the Auditorium in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Netherlands from 13:00 – 15:00 CEST on Thursday 20 June 2024. IFLA’s voting Members will receive an invitation to register for the meeting in person, virtually or to supply a proxy.
Are you an experienced Conference and Events Manager? If you are looking for a change and are brilliant at what you do, read on! Closing date: 11 June 2024.
The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) is pleased to announce the winners of its travel grant program for the 2024 IFLA Information Futures Summit in Brisbane, Australia.
The post-COVID period has been transformational for academic and research libraries, and has challenged librarians to take on leadership roles and embrace change in support of students and researchers. Libraries have seen significant growth in digital scholarship, and increased global attention on open science, open publication, and open data. In response, libraries have built new services and platforms to support new and emerging user needs, and in many cases have served as advocates for changing business models and approaches to scholarly communications.
Women in Iraq have been working in libraries for many years and they constitute the majority in library management. We are honoured to present a number of models recognised for their achievements in the field of library and information science.
The IFLA Library Publishing (LibPub) SIG created a blog series called “Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens”, featured on the ARL blog, as well as our own WordPress page. It features a variety of people involved in library publishing from around the world.
On 8-10 May 2024, Nerisa Kamar and Purity Kavuri represented IFLA and the global library field at the United Nations Civil Society Conference, as well as a UNESCO pre-meeting for NGOs, all held in Nairobi, Kenya. Nerisa and Purity here share what they learned.
Registration is now open for the upcoming webinar "FamilySearch's Ottoman Initiative" to be held on 13 June 2024 at 8:00 EST (14:00 CEST).
A congratulatory welcome to IFLA’s first Network, the IFLA Accessibility Metadata Network, formed by volunteers from across IFLA: The Advisory Committee on Standards, the Cataloguing, Subject Analysis and Access, Bibliography, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities and Audiovisual and Multimedia Sections.
With a new remit and a new focus on building out the IFLA Namespaces to even greater capacity, LIDATEC has been renamed the Metadata Technical Standards Review Group or METATEC.
Following the recent publication of a series of key IFLA standards by the IFLA Chinese Language Centre, we're happy to share a conversation between the coordinator of the Centre and Victoria Owen, Chair of the IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards, to understand more about the impact of the translation of IFLA materials.
In 2022, the CLM produced the fully open-access book, Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope - IFLA Publication 181. The book is arranged in four sections with individual chapters authored by world-class experts in copyright and libraries in the international context.
IFLA, working with the Technology and Social Change Group at the University of Washington, and with support from Stichting IFLA Global Libraries (SIGL) today launches the 2024 Development and Access to Information Report. This highlights uneven progress in delivering meaningful access, with advances in connectivity not matched by the spread of rights, equity and skills. In parallel, we need both better adapted laws, and investment in libraries to turn this access into success in delivering on the SDGs.